City Hotel Santiago

... wine tasting in Mendoza, then got aforementioned bus and arrived in Santiago yesterday to meet up with Lucy again. It´s my final night in South America tonight, so if all goes to plan I´ll have no memory of writing this in the morning and will sleep all the way to Sydney. I´ll be sad to leave but definitely looking forward to
Australia, despite the fact that it will be ...

... B&Bs and basic hotels the rest of the week!

We had time to kill until our room would be ready and somebody forgot to pack swim trunks and I myself had forgotten to pack socks so we asked the concierge where the nearest mall was. (This is after I convinced James that 14,400 chilean pesos each for the W's swanky breakfast buffet was outrageous...that would have been about $60 total) She showed us on the map and gave me a weird look ...

... left over. He thought about what to do with it and then threw it in a line on the earth. This is how Chile was created. Out of the palm his own hand".

German version:
Es fühlt sich gut an, wieder in Chile zu sein. Anfang des Jahres hatte ich versucht, einige Dinge vorzubereiten, um einen grossen Traum zu verwirklichen: Eine Reise zu Pferd durch Chile. Ich hatte erfolglos versucht, ein Auto zu kaufen, hatte mich mit der ...

... headed out to explore the city and buy some supplies from the supermarket. There wasn’t really a great deal to see, just what you would expect from any major city, shopping malls, street sellers, cafes etc.. Though we did manage to find an amazing ice-cream parlor selling every flavour you could imagine!

We just spent the next day at the hostel making arrangements and plans for New Zealand and catching up with ...

... Our main aim here was to do some sightseeing and give ourselves a couple of days to eek out a Bolivian visa before our flight to Easter Island on Wednesday.

We spent the Sunday wandering the city, walking around the main sights and museums and discovered a really peaceful and rather attractive town. There are dogs everywhere as well which is something we've been noticing a lot of lately. They appear friendly and healthy enough and even wait at the pedestrian ...

... of the world to climb and in fact when first attempts were made by the mountaineers their arrogance was considered (by the pioneers inhabiting such a place) of upmost ditaste, even insolent. How pretentious of them, to even consider they could succeed in conquering those hitherto impegnable peaks. I could quickly see why as I (despite the weather odds) saw both in their splendor. As I ran the 28k trail under such ...

... my Adios to Gina bless her and then went to look for someone hopefully holding my name on a piece of paper. There was about 50 people with cards etc and tai fellas trying to get you to take one of their cabs. I couldn't find anyone with my name but there was someone with the Hostel Bellavista wrote on it and the name Hannah Bishop. I thought "that will do" so I went from Mio to Hannah but then explained I was going the same hostel so he said no ...

... away to the rhythm of other bodily functions. Chad reserved the double room before he'd even had his coffee!! Santiago was a great city. We hiked to the top of Cerro San Cristobol where we picnicked and enjoyed incredible views of the city, backed by the enormous and impressive Andes mountain range. We rewarded ourselves at the bottom with a couple of strong Pisco Sours, the national drink here, at a sidewalk café. We shared a ...

... on planes and airports) Jorge and Diego showed us their capital ... As always it is a great advantage to be shown around by locals - so at this point - thanks again you two!









At 21:00 the people attending the barbeque got together for a glas of chilean wine while the different meats were frizzling next to ...

Chile is one of those countries that can fascinate you simply by its look on the world map. The intricate web of fjords, volcanoes, and impossibly long lakes hugging Pacific coastline from the tropic of Capricorn to Cape Horn makes you think of neverending journey where there is always something new around the next corner, one bus hop away, beyond the next horizon. To go there was not a difficult choice but to choose where to go was, well, hard. It's all started four years ago. I ...